Sarah80
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Plan to walk july 15
Hello All,
I was encouraged onto my first camino by many of you back in July where an opportune window presented itself (redundancy!) for me to take my first Camino, even though it meant being in Pamplona for San Fermin and enduring a frightfully hot early August slog over the Meseta. I regret nothing of the decision. The camino has been calling me for years and before going I had digested every shred of documentation of the Way from videos to books. On the last days of the Camino, mainly a little disturbed by the change of pace/atmosphere from Sarria, I thought I was "done" with my obsession but with only 6 weeks back at home I still feel called to walk. I'm reading up on the camino again, checking these forums, even formulating plans to do a spring Camino (half seriously, half daydreaming).
The Camino feels like the only thing that has truly meant sense in my life, walking the Camino is the most peaceful, natural and lifted state I have felt and even though my life is pretty full, I have a new puppy, a new relationship, I'm starting a business, everything else feels like "extras" or "noise" with no base, no backdrop, the camino gave me a really solid grounding in happiness while walking on it that has vanished back at home. Some lessons have stuck, but mostly I am not living the lessons that came so naturally on the Camino, basic stuff like taking care of your body, guarding against tiredness and judgement, the basic stuff that fills you with wellness.
Taking care of your body for the next days walk, following arrows, knowing a good (well!) meal and a clean (ish) bed lies at the end of your day, it was such an easy life in many ways. You really felt like you deserved that Pilgrim menu after a 30k+ walk, back at home, everything comes without really having to earn it?
Does this resonate with anyone! I realise it comes across as the whinging of a pampered Generation X'er, I guess the question is, how have you taken the soul lifting baseline of wellness (if you got it!) from the Camino and transplanted that into your everyday life?
Or maybe I just missed the lesson entirely, and need to repeat the class (Here's hoping!). Is a Camino obsession normal? Can be it sated?
I was encouraged onto my first camino by many of you back in July where an opportune window presented itself (redundancy!) for me to take my first Camino, even though it meant being in Pamplona for San Fermin and enduring a frightfully hot early August slog over the Meseta. I regret nothing of the decision. The camino has been calling me for years and before going I had digested every shred of documentation of the Way from videos to books. On the last days of the Camino, mainly a little disturbed by the change of pace/atmosphere from Sarria, I thought I was "done" with my obsession but with only 6 weeks back at home I still feel called to walk. I'm reading up on the camino again, checking these forums, even formulating plans to do a spring Camino (half seriously, half daydreaming).
The Camino feels like the only thing that has truly meant sense in my life, walking the Camino is the most peaceful, natural and lifted state I have felt and even though my life is pretty full, I have a new puppy, a new relationship, I'm starting a business, everything else feels like "extras" or "noise" with no base, no backdrop, the camino gave me a really solid grounding in happiness while walking on it that has vanished back at home. Some lessons have stuck, but mostly I am not living the lessons that came so naturally on the Camino, basic stuff like taking care of your body, guarding against tiredness and judgement, the basic stuff that fills you with wellness.
Taking care of your body for the next days walk, following arrows, knowing a good (well!) meal and a clean (ish) bed lies at the end of your day, it was such an easy life in many ways. You really felt like you deserved that Pilgrim menu after a 30k+ walk, back at home, everything comes without really having to earn it?
Does this resonate with anyone! I realise it comes across as the whinging of a pampered Generation X'er, I guess the question is, how have you taken the soul lifting baseline of wellness (if you got it!) from the Camino and transplanted that into your everyday life?
Or maybe I just missed the lesson entirely, and need to repeat the class (Here's hoping!). Is a Camino obsession normal? Can be it sated?